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Who needs more things as birthday gifts? My 70th birthday was coming up in June when I did Kayaking（划皮划艇）with my son. Paul and I took a double kayak so I could stop 1.（row） anytime to take photos.
Our guides knew the best places 2. (find) whales, sea lions and dolphins. We were never 3. (disappoint）) Sometimes we didn't bother with the photos and just watched in wonder as magnificent 4. (creature) came nearer for us to see eyeball to eyeball. Posing for a photographer was not high 5. their priority list. Sometimes, though, the sea lions would appear to be looking 6. (direct) at us as if to say, "Here I am. Take my picture?
One morning, the whales put on 7. performance for us, probably no more than 20 meters offshore. We 8. (see) a unique tail appear, then another, then another. Each time, it was a little 9. (close) to us. They were coming our way! We were screaming, "Whale, whale!" every time one jumped.
All too soon, it was time for us to leave Hanson Island, 10. we had spent four wonderful days. I asked Paul, "What are you going to do for my 80th?"
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When Spain hosted the FIBA Basketball World Cup in 2014, the country, 1. ten men who had played in the NBA, had the best lineup (阵容) in its basketball history. However, Spain 2.(defeat) by France in the quarterfinal.
Five years 3. (late) with some aging stan and just six players with NBA experience, Spain had nothing close to the expectations of 2014. Maybe that helped. The Spanish team won the gold medal.
This success, as Bleacher Reporter put 4. , would serve to inspire yet another generation of hardwood hopefuls in a country that already ranks among the most sports-crazed in all of Europe, 5., in tum, help Spain to challenge US Supremacy (权威) in basketball.”
The US is always among the 6. (favour) in international basketball events, thanks to the high level of 7. (compete) in its professional league. 8.the US side lost the 2019 World Cup quarterfinal to France, 9. (mark) the country's first international basketball match without a gold medal since 2006.
This is a blow to the US. Many blamed the lack of star players for the loss. But this may be a sign 10. the basketball universe is changing. If there's one lesson to be learned from the US's failure, it's that the other countries had invested more this time.
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Are boys really better at math than girls？ No， that doesn't seem1.（rely）．
That's according to new research by Jessica Cantlon， a professor and neuroscientist of Carnegie Mellon University， and her colleagues．2.（scientist） looked at young boys' and girls' brains， and found no difference in mathematical ability． Their new paper，3.（publish） in the journal Science of Learning， suggests that society is to blame4.the mistaken idea that girls aren't good at numbers．
Cantlon and her colleagues used an MRI machine5.（examine） 105 kids' brains while the kids watched an educational video．6.found that the kids' brains showed no major differences during the experiment．
This report7.（base） on a previous study in 2018， which looked at the test performance data of 500 boys and girls． The 2018 paper found no difference in their early mathematical ability，8.（suggest） that boys and girls are equally equipped to reason about mathematics during early childhood．
Cantlon hopes that people will stop being so sexist （性别歧视的） about little girls and calculators．"9.（hope）， we can change expectations of10.children can achieve in mathematics，" she says．
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High on the Qinghai---Tibet Plateau(高原)1. (lie) China’s “water tower” Sanjiangyuan. 2. is home to the head-waters of China’s three rivers. However, human activities 3.(put) this ecosystem 4. risk in recent years.
In 2016, the Chinese government set up Sanjiangyuan National Park in Qinghai province. With Sanjiangyuan 5. (take) the lead, other regions have been chosen 6. (carry) out projects that together would form a national park system. The idea 7. a national park system should be realized was approved by President Xi, who said, “Building an ecological civilization bears great 8. (significant) in the development and progress of human civilization.”
9. (hopeful), the success of Sanjiangyuan will mark the start of a 10. (green) future.
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If you’ve ever ridden public transport, you’ve probably heard snoring(打鼾) and found someone sleeping in the seat across from you. The natural vibration(震动) of buses and subways 1.(make) us feel sleepy, according to a new study in Science Alert.
Why? It’s all about sensory input-information going to your brain. On a bus, your senses give you 2.(continue) and repeating information. For example, the air conditioner and engine create constant white noise. Meanwhile, you are sitting still and your 3.(surrounding) don’t change. The vibrations of the engine are also opening. Your brain has almost no new information to process.
Repeating information will be 4.(ignore) eventually and your brain will enter a low-energy state. The fact that you fall asleep quickly with your eyes 5.(close) on a bus is because your brain gets used to all the repeat.
“When you’re tired, it doesn’t take much time 6.(start) nodding off and we’ve found that the gentle vibrations made by car seats 7. you drive can loose(使放松) your brain and body,” said Stephen Robinson, 8. researcher from the RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.
Robinson’ s team mentioned 15 volunteers’ heart rate variability(心率变异性)—a well-known indicator of sleepiness. This line of research can assist in the development of practical and relevant guidelines for limiting 9.(expose) to vibrations in the car industry. Robinson believed that the research could be helpful 10. improving road safety. “We hope that future car seat designs can build in features to disturb this lulling effect and fight vibration-induced(震动引起的) sleepiness,” he said.
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Cuju was developed in China around 500 B. C. and was played with a leather ball. It is considered by FIFA as the 1. ( early ) form of football. During the Han Dynasty, the popularity of Cuju 2. ( spread) from the army to the royal courts and upper classes. It 3. ( say) that Emperor Wu of nan enjoyed the sport. Cuju 4. ( match) were often held inside the imperial palace.
Cuju was further developed 5.. the Tang Dynasty. There were dozens of well-organized Cuju leagues in Chang'an. 6. was then the capital of the Empire. The rules, fields and facilities for Cuju became more advanced, for example, balls filled with air and Cuju goals appeared during this period. 7. was also during this age that similar games were being played in Korea and Japan, and 8. (gradual) worldwide.
Cuju was most developed during the Song Dynasty because of the social and economic development. At that time, 9. (profession) Cuju players were quite popular. They fell into two groups: One was trained by and performed for the royal court and the other talented civilians who made a 10. (live) as Cuju players.
